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After months of buildup, Developers Diversified Realty Corp finally sells the first commercial real estate bond in more than a year. At $400 million, it’s hardly a dramatic debut, but it’s a significant first for one of the few markets still jammed since the financial crisis.

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Commercial real estate loan delinquencies are on the rise again, and September’s increase is the largest ever, according to Moody’s Investors Service’s latest tally of those loans included in CMBS deals.

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What do you get when you put a U.S. automaker, a leveraged buyout and commercial real estate together – a soon-to-be bankrupt company. Caroline Humer of Reuters reports that that Capmark – formerly the commercial real estate business of GM financing arm GMAC – is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, with the final blow coming possibly by the end of next week?

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The Federal Reserve may not want to crow about the half-empty giant shopping mall it now owns in Oklahoma City by virture of its hastily-arranged rescue of Bear Stearns. But at least one other commercial real estate deal that the Fed picked up from Bear appears to be in better shape.

from Rolfe Winkler:

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Last month commercial real estate prices took a bit of a breather, falling just 1% after seeing prices fall 9% from March to April and an additional 8% from April to May. Those are fairly stunning rates of decline. In July, the descent picked up steam again, falling 5.1% compared to June.

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The last week has been a bit of a shocker for Europe’s already crumbling commercial mortgage-backed securities market (CMBS).
Investors have had to cope with steep declines in the value of their bonds and a wave of downgrades by rating agencies.

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The repackaging of commercial real estate mortgage-backed securities made a splash in July as banks offered investors panicked by looming ratings downgrades better protection against potential losses. But, it turns out that there’s only been 9 such deals rated by Moody’s, for a total of around $1.2 billion, with Credit Swisse doing three of them.